L. S. Bevington was an essayist, philosopher and poet, one of a very small handful of publishing anarcho-communist women. She issued three collections of poetry, over thirty essays, and a small number of translations in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In the course of her life, she developed into a vociferous activist for communal governance of society free from money, religion, and state apparatus, and supported violence as a necessary element of revolution. Her work is strongly tied to post-Darwinian theories of evolution.

Milestones

14 May 1845 Louisa Sarah Bevington was born in Battersea in South London, the eldest of eight children (of whom seven were girls).

October 1871 LSB probably first reached print with two sonnets in the Quaker periodical the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, titled "Sonnet" and "A Double Sonnet". She may have added a third sonnet in the same journal this year.

By 5 August 1882 LSB published her second and probably best-known volume, Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets, which is more metrically experimental than her earlier Key-Notes and more explicitly grounded in non-Christian philosophy.

By November 28 1895 After a long illness, LSB died, aged fifty, at Willesden in Middlesex. The official cause of death was heart disease and dropsy (edema).